East Coast & Midlands
Leinster
County Laois

Aghaboe

Abbeyleix is a town in in the midlands of Ireland, with a population of 1770 in 2016. The abbey was Cistercian, founded in 1183 in the valley of the River Nore, and the original settlement grew up around it.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Aghaboe Abbey and Aghaboe Church.

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The Abbey of Aghaboe is one of the most important of the abbeys and priories in County Laois. It was founded in the kingdom of Osraige by St. Canice in the 6th century.

Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clogh and Ballacolla.

Hamlet
Clough is a village in the civil parish of Bordwell in . It lies at a point where several townlands and two civil parishes meet. One of the churches of the Roman Catholic parish of Aghaboe, St. is situated 4 km south of Aghaboe.

Village
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, officially Ballycolla, is a village in , . It sits at the crossroads of the R433 and R434 regional roads, 8 km southwest of and 4 km northeast of junction 3 of the M8 motorway. is situated 6 km southeast of Aghaboe.

Village
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is a village in , . It had a population of 145 as of the 2002 census, and forms part of the electoral area. is situated 7 km west of Aghaboe.

Aghaboe

Latitude
52.9217° or 52° 55′ 18″ north
Longitude
-7.51359° or 7° 30′ 49″ west
Elevation
112 metres (367 feet)
Open location code
9C4JWFCP+MH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6407013077
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Geo­Names ID
2967066
Wiki­data ID
Q256017
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“Aghaboe” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Aghaboe”
  • Belarusian: “Ахабо”
  • Catalan: “Aghaboe”
  • Dutch: “Aghaboe”
  • French: “Aghaboe”
  • German: “Aghaboe”
  • Irish: “Achadh Bhó”
  • Irish: “Achadh Bó”
  • Persian: “اقابو”
  • Polish: “Aghaboe”
  • Russian: “Ахабо”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Achadh Bhó”
  • Urdu: “اقابو”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Black Grove and Kilcotton.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Aghaboe Graveyard and Aghaboe Motte.

County Laois: Must-Visit Destinations

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Aghaboe”. Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 3.0.